Colonization of Planets: A Generational Ship. Episode 2. Space Science Fiction. Audiobook

*"Between Life and Eternity: the price of Star dreams"* 2117-2119 The Earth, the Moon, and the orbital stations. Igor and Anna, whose dreams of freedom and spaciousness seemed so close to Gliza-531, face a cruel paradox of progress. Their story turns into a tragedy, where love and hope are intertwined with ethical disasters and technologies that blur the boundaries between man and machine. --- *Key themes of the episode:* 1. *"A dream for two" — the illusion of escape from reality* Having achieved a joint cryocapsule, Anna sees hibernation as a romantic gesture — "a fairy tale about a sleeping prince and princess." But behind her dreams of green plains and clear skies lies the desperation of a resident of an overpopulated Land, where even vertical farms and skyscrapers-forests do not replace the lost nature. Igor, on the contrary, realizes that the colonization of Gliza is not an escape to paradise, but the hard work of thousands of people who "will share even the air." 2. *An accident in orbit: the price of human error* The fatal training of cadets turns into a disaster. A shuttle launched from the Moon crashes due to a technical malfunction, and Igor, like other pilots, dies in outer space. His last thought is not fear, but bitterness: Anna will be left alone, and their shared ticket to Gliza will turn into a ticket to nowhere... 3. * "Life after death" is a neuroexperiment nightmare* Igor "wakes up" in Professor Chan&laboratory, where his...